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with no further ado, eliot cohen. >> great to be here. important that every book event remember it is to sell books. a copy of the big stick, television audience, a very important book. on groundhog day we are meeting and that is very apropos. by the way those who don't know punxsutawney phil saw his shadow, we are in for another six weeks of winter. the movie groundhog day is one of my favorite movies. those who have seen it know that bill murray wakes up every day and it is groundhog day again. and some sense, that is a metaphor for what eliot cohen is writing about. every so often the united states needs to learn the lesson that military power is important. we had to relearn that lesson after world war ii, korea, vietnam, we have to learn it again after the last 15 years. in some sense, that is the subject of eliot cohen's book. as a lapsed diplomat having been a particular -- practitioner for 30 years am i associate myself with comments that george kennan made, though he is not my favorite foreign service officer, but the archetype of
with no further ado, eliot cohen. >> great to be here. important that every book event remember it is to sell books. a copy of the big stick, television audience, a very important book. on groundhog day we are meeting and that is very apropos. by the way those who don't know punxsutawney phil saw his shadow, we are in for another six weeks of winter. the movie groundhog day is one of my favorite movies. those who have seen it know that bill murray wakes up every day and it is groundhog...
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so eliot lays the dragon of strategy in this book i pointing out that any sort of grand intellectual design or theory or blueprint or plan isn't going to survive very long in the real world. and as someone who actually came from teaching a class with the words grand strategy in the title, let me push back because i think that your critique of grand schemes, i think you may actually be critiquing a strawman version of grand strategy so we believe that grand strategy is indeed a step-by-step plan or something that can lend a seamless coherence to foreign policy, you're right.it is truly hopeless in any interest but i would say i think most people who argue in favor of grand strategy think it's something a little bit different and perhaps more modest. it's just a very basic set of principles, ideas, of priorities that guide how you react to a chaotic world and even how you adapt in the face of unforeseen event. it's a sense of what is most important as a country? what are the things that most threatened that? and in general, how can i apply what resources i have to fix it? if you take t
so eliot lays the dragon of strategy in this book i pointing out that any sort of grand intellectual design or theory or blueprint or plan isn't going to survive very long in the real world. and as someone who actually came from teaching a class with the words grand strategy in the title, let me push back because i think that your critique of grand schemes, i think you may actually be critiquing a strawman version of grand strategy so we believe that grand strategy is indeed a step-by-step plan...
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honored to have leader nancy pelosi with us along with other members of congress including jim costa, eliot engel, l florez, alcee hastings, jim mcgovern, jan, frank wolf and alan lowenthal. we're honored to be joined -- [applause] >> we are honored to be joined by many ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic corps, including ambassador robert king, the impassioned accident, the represent of kristen, former ambassador david saperstein, ambassadors from unesco, bert walker and the ambassador of iraq. please join me and recognize the ambassadors. [applause]
honored to have leader nancy pelosi with us along with other members of congress including jim costa, eliot engel, l florez, alcee hastings, jim mcgovern, jan, frank wolf and alan lowenthal. we're honored to be joined -- [applause] >> we are honored to be joined by many ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic corps, including ambassador robert king, the impassioned accident, the represent of kristen, former ambassador david saperstein, ambassadors from unesco, bert walker and the...
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. >> this week, from alex mo of nbc news related to the president's speech tonight, congressman eliot engel will announce for the first time in his 29 years here he will not stand on the isle to shake the president of the united states hand during the joint session tonight. now here's attorney general jeff sessions speaking this morning at the national association of attorney general winter meeting. >>. [applause]
. >> this week, from alex mo of nbc news related to the president's speech tonight, congressman eliot engel will announce for the first time in his 29 years here he will not stand on the isle to shake the president of the united states hand during the joint session tonight. now here's attorney general jeff sessions speaking this morning at the national association of attorney general winter meeting. >>. [applause]
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eliot slays the dragon of grand strategy. by pointing out that any sort of grand intellectual design or theory or blueprint or plan isn't going to survive very long in the real world. as someone who came with the word grand strategy in the title i think your critique of grand schemes is well taken but i think you may actually be critiquing a strawman version of grand strategy. if you believe the grand strategy is a step is to plan or something that can be a seamless coherence to policy then you are right. i would say and i think most people who are in favor of a grand strategy think of something a little bit different perhaps more modest and a very basic set of symbols and ideas and priorities that guide how you interact in a chaotic world and even how you adapt in the face of unforeseen events. it's a sense of what is the most important to me as a country. what are the things that most threaten that and a general sense how can i apply what resources i have to get the good stuff? i think if you take that as the definition you
eliot slays the dragon of grand strategy. by pointing out that any sort of grand intellectual design or theory or blueprint or plan isn't going to survive very long in the real world. as someone who came with the word grand strategy in the title i think your critique of grand schemes is well taken but i think you may actually be critiquing a strawman version of grand strategy. if you believe the grand strategy is a step is to plan or something that can be a seamless coherence to policy then you...
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at 7:30, a look at the military forces with eliot cohen. then at 8:45 p.m. eastern, rolling stones matt taibbi looks back at the 2016 presidential campaign.
at 7:30, a look at the military forces with eliot cohen. then at 8:45 p.m. eastern, rolling stones matt taibbi looks back at the 2016 presidential campaign.
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honored to have leader nancy pelosi with us along with other members of congress including jim costa, eliot engel, l florez, alcee hastings, jim mcgovern, jan, frank wolf and alan lowenthal. we're honored to be joined -- [applause] >> we are honored to be joined by many ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic corps, including ambassador robert king, the impassioned accident, the represent of kristen, former ambassador david saperstein, ambassadors from unesco, bert walker and the ambassador of iraq. please join me and recognize the ambassadors. [applause] >> we would like to extend our gratitude to the individuals who have worked to make this event possible. among them, jared, for his work to get vian here, and we are so glad that you are here. [applause] former recipient of the lantos prize rejoined just today, taking. [applause] >> kate came from the lantos foundation advisory board, and john as well. thank you all. [applause] >> vian, we are here because of you but we also hear because in your story we recognize our own. we see the story of my grandmother who had to swim a river on
honored to have leader nancy pelosi with us along with other members of congress including jim costa, eliot engel, l florez, alcee hastings, jim mcgovern, jan, frank wolf and alan lowenthal. we're honored to be joined -- [applause] >> we are honored to be joined by many ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic corps, including ambassador robert king, the impassioned accident, the represent of kristen, former ambassador david saperstein, ambassadors from unesco, bert walker and the...
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. >> this week, from alex mo of nbc news related to the president's speech tonight, congressman eliot engel will announce for the first time in his 29 years here he will not stand on the isle to shake the president of the united states hand during the joint session tonight. now here's attorney general jeff sessions speaking this morning at the national association of attorney general winter meeting. >>. [applause] >> it's a great pleasure to welcome general sessions to this meeting. here to introduce him is a longtime personal and political and collegiate ally, luther strange. i'd like to direct the new position, senator strange, come forward. [applause] for six years luther served as attorney general and was very active in the national association of attorney general serving on several committees and serving as chair, senator strange. >> good morning colleagues. i miss you all very much already and it's a great honor to serve in this organization and it's been maybe once or twice that i've said could i get, this is a wonderful organization and is an honor to introduce my good friend
. >> this week, from alex mo of nbc news related to the president's speech tonight, congressman eliot engel will announce for the first time in his 29 years here he will not stand on the isle to shake the president of the united states hand during the joint session tonight. now here's attorney general jeff sessions speaking this morning at the national association of attorney general winter meeting. >>. [applause] >> it's a great pleasure to welcome general sessions to this...
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eliot aficionado of sorts. george didn't write that part of the story, but he used it in his storytelling all the time with the reference to the famous lina from the love song. well, george would say, my arm was rather like a ragged claw. come on. [laughter] when that story was expanded, when that s.i. story was expanded into george's first bestseller called "out of my league," ernest hemingway wirede george that it was, quoting here, beautifully on receivedd and incredibly conceived with the chilling quality of a true nightmare, the dark side of the moon of walter mitty. [laughter] well, it was a gift from hemingway intended as a marketing blurb, and hemingway's walter mitty analogy has a surface be truth to it, but it overlooked the obvious, and that is that the differences in mitty's day dreams, he always succeeded. in george's real life adventures, he always failed. the truth is, george's work had much more to do with every man than mitty which, you know, was always obscured by george's careful, receive dep
eliot aficionado of sorts. george didn't write that part of the story, but he used it in his storytelling all the time with the reference to the famous lina from the love song. well, george would say, my arm was rather like a ragged claw. come on. [laughter] when that story was expanded, when that s.i. story was expanded into george's first bestseller called "out of my league," ernest hemingway wirede george that it was, quoting here, beautifully on receivedd and incredibly conceived...
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eliot please. os siesta key -- succeeded in securing victories to use our new authority to file a brief with the supreme court from the department of homeland security and in the decision they agreed with arguments on behalf of a whistle-blower. since 2012 policy has received and investigated 243 retaliation cases on gsa employees that we could not investigate prior to the wpea. another new element is the anti-negative aboard air provision which ensures that protection will supersede any nondisclosure agreements and requires any non disclosure agreement includes language that clearly states the employee may still flow the whistle even after they sign the agreement or are subject to policy. and for saying baghdad provision we have obtained nearly three dozen corrective actions and issued specific guidance to agencies on this topic. also with provisions that are set to expire this year the ombudsman's program that was discussed in the review program oic strongly recommends both of these speak made pe
eliot please. os siesta key -- succeeded in securing victories to use our new authority to file a brief with the supreme court from the department of homeland security and in the decision they agreed with arguments on behalf of a whistle-blower. since 2012 policy has received and investigated 243 retaliation cases on gsa employees that we could not investigate prior to the wpea. another new element is the anti-negative aboard air provision which ensures that protection will supersede any...
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eliot who said that the only form of knowledge that we can aspire to is humility, and humility is endless. one of the predictions i start with. what kind of trouble? we have not had a president like this or we have not had 10 or however many, 11, 12, however many days it is, we've not had a president that has behaved like this. so the question is from someone who is charged of analytic and step back and say what's going to happen, so in the early days there are certain things a president can do, the refugee cards, et cetera, he can orders out, not that they've been put up or efficiently but he can put orders out. but in the end on the big issues, taxes, affordable care act, military policy, those sorts of things, the user has to go through congress party basically has to go through congress. the question people often ask is is congress an independent branch of government? the founders, they put the constitution together, they, tried to put this in an objective way. the founders knew that you might have political operatives that probably were not grant. [laughter] -- grand. spirit that was
eliot who said that the only form of knowledge that we can aspire to is humility, and humility is endless. one of the predictions i start with. what kind of trouble? we have not had a president like this or we have not had 10 or however many, 11, 12, however many days it is, we've not had a president that has behaved like this. so the question is from someone who is charged of analytic and step back and say what's going to happen, so in the early days there are certain things a president can...
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as for the push of administration official eliot cohen wrote in the method won't press us of because the problem is one of temperament and character it will not get better. it will get worse as power and intoxicant trump and those around him. you will probably end in calamity. david brooks concludes trump's first 10 days in office have made clear that this is not a normal administration. it is a problem that demands a response here it is a callous, bumbling group that demands either personal loyalty or the acts. with most administration you can agree sometimes and disagree other times but this one is a danger to the party and the nation in its existential nature, and so sooner or later all will have to choose what side they are on and live forever afterwards with the choice did i ask unanimous consent of the full article be added at the conclusion of my remarks in the record speak without objection, so ordered. >> it is getting to be standup time here in congress. nominees have to meet a higher standard when the white house traffics in alternative facts. if i depend conspiracy theori
as for the push of administration official eliot cohen wrote in the method won't press us of because the problem is one of temperament and character it will not get better. it will get worse as power and intoxicant trump and those around him. you will probably end in calamity. david brooks concludes trump's first 10 days in office have made clear that this is not a normal administration. it is a problem that demands a response here it is a callous, bumbling group that demands either personal...
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in response, not only eliot richardson but archibald cox resigned. that was a key constitutional moment at that time and decisions were made by people of integrity to stand up for the law and constitution even if it meant walking away from the office that they had been asked to hold. we can expect nothing less. mr. chairman, when senator sessions came to see me in my office, i was heartened by one thing. he didn't come in and tell me that he was the new jeff sessions that he had reinvented himself for this position. he didn't try to do that but we know one another quite well. not involve involve other refugd immigration i have to be question that based on what we have already heard from both senator feinstein and senator leahy, this article in the "washington post" suggests that he was involved in directly but definitely involved. the directives that have the fingerprints were also on nearly all of them. it's the globalism and the term used on the extreme right for a threat to the united states by free trade and international alliances that the immig
in response, not only eliot richardson but archibald cox resigned. that was a key constitutional moment at that time and decisions were made by people of integrity to stand up for the law and constitution even if it meant walking away from the office that they had been asked to hold. we can expect nothing less. mr. chairman, when senator sessions came to see me in my office, i was heartened by one thing. he didn't come in and tell me that he was the new jeff sessions that he had reinvented...